Peter Bennett will talk about Chronotape which is a tangible timeline for family history research, developed as part of the PATINA project within the Bristol Interaction & Graphics group. The chronotape explores the concept of using a tangible interface to control time, effectively turning the abstract concept of time into something that can be held and controlled.
Links
http://chronotape.com/
http://www.patina.ac.
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This is an outline schedule of talks and demonstrations for #SxSC. Anyone attending is invited to talk and demo their work.
10.30am
Composer Benjamin Mawson investigates ways to use space as an expressive layer in studio-produced music. Developer Enrique Tomas has built a tool using GPS to interpret a listener’s position and movement in order to create a unique way of hearing music. Musical compositions can now be spread across a landscape, mapped to a territory.
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The Tsinghua-Southampton exchange program was set up to serve as a platform for young researchers to exchange ideas on key issues within Web Science. The chosen project was to analyze, extract and visualize how the young perceived the world using online data. As part of the Visualization team Christopher Hughes will be demonstrating the chosen tools that we used to represent the data, highlighting some key issues and concerns.
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James Miles will outline the use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging - a simple and cheap surface imaging tool - on existing three dimensional datasets in a virtual environment. He will show some worked examples, and evaluate the potential of the methodology within cultural heritage. He will focus on comparing the different datasets and will highlight the surface detail that could be overlooked through conventional means of visualisation.
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Music composed in the digital studio has always been heard on loudspeakers. All of the theatre and unpredictability of a performance is absent.
Composer Benjamin Mawson investigates ways to use space as an expressive layer in studio-produced music.
Developer Enrique Tomas has built a tool using GPS to interpret a listener’s position and movement in order to create a unique way of hearing music.
Musical compositions can now be spread across a landscape, mapped to a territory.
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Ajay Chakravarthy and Paul Walland will demonstrate a new way of viewing digitised 3D objects from cultural heritage collections. They will talk about some of the cool applications they see for this kind of virtual model representation.
Paul is a manager at IT Innovation responsible for media-based collaborative projects and social networking.
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Alain Renaud will be talking about distributed music. Alain's research explores high-speed networks as a medium for developing real time interactive performances in a multiplicity of spaces. The technological usefulness of the latter is of limited importance if the various musical, sociological and philosophical aspects are not considered.
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We are starting to get in details of some of the presentations at SXSC:
The Re-reading the British Memorial project is investigating the potential for using a variety of technologies for the recording, interpreting and sharing of data about church memorials in the UK. Find out about them at: http://ourti.
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Quotes

“Working with your own year's group provides support for shared understanding, mixing of ideas, arguments and approaches, positive conferring and social and moral support. Within a DTC, the benefits are amplified as the higher experience and developed expertise of the upper years can be engaged with in a mutually rewarding way. As well as supporting our academic learning, we gain skills in team-working which anticipate or build on the competencies required in many working environments outside of academia.” Caroline Halcrow, 2012 intake